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Naval Aviation Centennial: One Astronaut, A Future Astronaut and Reaching for New Heights

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Forty-nine years ago – within one day of each other, one astronaut headed for orbit as America’s first to circle the Earth and a future astronaut opened a series of record attempts in the McDonell F4H Phantom: Images Courtesy Rex Features & NASA 20 Feb 1962: Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn. USMC, in Mercury spacecraft…

Flightdeck Friday: Hypersonics – Douglas D-558-III

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As the emerging theme this week is hypersonics, what with the reference to the Shenlong and the upload to the Virtual Library of a comprehensive 3-volume history of the US hypersonic effort from the X-15 through the NASP, reader and frequent correspondent Thommy Thomason joins the scene as a guest author of this week’s Flightdeck…

Flightdeck Friday: Boeing F4B-4

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trans·for·ma·tion (trāns’fÉ™r-mā’shÉ™n): the act of changing in form or shape or appearance. 1928.  Boeing is rolling the dice and has invested its own money in developing two prototype aircraft it hopes to demonstrate to the Navy and later the Army as replacements for the F3B, currently serving with the Navy, and PW-9, serving with the…

Hawkeye Mission Wraps Up Last of Naval Air Missions Over Iraq

Hawkeye Mission Wraps Up Last of Naval Air Missions Over Iraq

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From Navy Times: When an E-2C Hawkeye snagged the arresting cable on the carrier John C. Stennis on Dec. 18, it marked the official end of naval air missions of the Iraq War. The Hawkeye, from Airborne Early Warning Squadron 112, the “Golden Hawks,” was shot off Stennis at 7:32 a.m. and provided early warning…